Levente Herman (Marosvásárhely, 1976) has been a member of the Élesd Artist Colony since 1998. In his paintings, he addresses the concept of physical and psychiatrical borders and thresholds in photo-realist and realist styles. His uncanny imagery and subjects exude an alienating, mistifying atmosphere. The feeling of emptiness, abandonment, disappearance and loss recurs in several of his works. His recent series of works, entitled New Paradise Project, and Sketches for a private army are images of a surrealist anti-utopia, whose dark, abanoned streets, shabby tunnels and street scenes evoke Piranesi’s endless, prison-like labirynths.